On Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Dean E. Weisgold P.C. lodged a class action against Allied Medical Associates P.C., physician Bryan
The United States Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited opinion clarifying what qualifies as an “autodialer” and is therefore governed by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Progressives should take careful note of the unanimous victory the Supreme Court handed down for Facebook in early April. The tech giant’s win gutted a 30-year-old federal law preventing junk calls, a boon to big corporations that now face less liability for annoying calls and texts. But even more importantly, it signaled the absolute supremacy of textualism the conservative credo as the universal language spoken not only by the newly emboldened majority but also by the Court’s diminished liberal wing. A strict textualist reading was almost a preordained conclusion given the 6-3 balance on the Court, but the surprising aspect of
WASHINGTON – A unanimous panel of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a 1991 definition of an automatic telephone dialing system did not govern unsolicited text messages social media company Facebook sent to a cell phone number in its database, a ruling that could change the landscape of litigation brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).